"I certainly didn't set out to write them that way, but I think there's a lot of positive stuff here. Still, I just read a review that says it's the same old, depressing Eitzel, and it pisses me off. They got it all wrong. They weren't listening."
Mark Eitzel

I'm proud of what I did with American Music Club. I kind of wrote the same after I left. All the songs I used on my first solo record were AMC songs. The best thing the band did for me was that they were a filter. They would say, 'Mark, that's really great' or 'Mark, that really sucks.' So I got a good idea about whether the songs were good or bad. And that was great. And that's why I gave them half my publishing.
Mark Eitzel

You wear your pain with pride you refuse to remove it / You become the evil that plays with you like a doll," or the first-person fable, "Myopic Books," where he realizes that "Maybe the worst is over."
Mark Eitzel

"I've got a new approach that says, 'Look for the good things.'"
Mark Eitzel

I wrote the songs first on guitar and this was my way of recording the album. I'd recorded the album twice before with different people and it's basically the same record, I just used a different medium this time. The process didn't really change the songs but it is changing what I do now. I'm starting to write exclusively on computer and not even using guitar. That's changing what I do a little bit. It's a whole different feel.
Mark Eitzel